Read these daily:

First and foremost, the most significant thing you can do is stop buying their oil. Get rid of your car or make the switch to a non-mineral oil alternative. Avoid buying goods from Muslim countries. On a local, personal level, do not frequent Muslim-run businesses (they don't really want your custom anyway). Let your wallet do the talking.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Londonistan Calling

Christopher Hitchens' article in Vanity Fair about returning to the London neighbourhood of his youth, Finsbury Park. It's lengthy but worth reading.

"They say that the past is another country, but let me tell you that it's much more unsettling to find that the present has become another country, too....For the British mainstream, multiculturalism has been the official civic religion for so long that any criticism of any minority group has become the equivalent of profanity. And Islamic extremists have long understood that they need only suggest a racial bias—or a hint of the newly invented and meaningless term "Islamophobia"—in order to make the British cough and shuffle with embarrassment...you can't be multicultural and preach murderous loathing of Jews...It's impossible to exaggerate how far and how fast this situation has deteriorated."